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Lafferty - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with -almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org/license - - -Title: All The People - -Author: R.A. Lafferty - -Release Date: March 30, 2016 [EBook #51603] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ALL THE PEOPLE *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - -</pre> - - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/cover.jpg" width="391" height="500" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="titlepage"> -<h1>ALL THE PEOPLE</h1> - -<p>By R. A. LAFFERTY</p> - -<p>Illustrated by GAUGHAN</p> - -<p>[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from<br /> -Galaxy Magazine April 1961.<br /> -Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that<br /> -the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]</p> - -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p class="ph3"><i>Tin Tony Trotz had only one job—to<br /> -watch out for something a little<br /> -odd—in a universe that was insane!</i></p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>Anthony Trotz went first to the politician, Mike Delado. "How many -people do you know, Mr. Delado?"</p> - -<p>"Why the question?"</p> - -<p>"I am wondering just what amount of detail the mind can hold."</p> - -<p>"To a degree I know many. Ten thousand well, thirty thousand by name, -probably a hundred thousand by face and to shake hands with."</p> - -<p>"And what is the limit?" Anthony inquired.</p> - -<p>"Possibly I am the limit." The politician smiled frostily. "The only -limit is time, speed of cognizance and retention. I am told that the -latter lessens with age. I am seventy, and it has not done so with me. -Whom I have known I do not forget."</p> - -<p>"And with special training could one go beyond you?"</p> - -<p>"I doubt if one could—much. For my own training has been quite -special. Nobody has been so entirely with the people as I have. I've -taken five memory courses in my time, but the tricks of all of them I -had already come to on my own. I am a great believer in the commonality -of mankind and of near equal inherent ability. Yet there are some, say -the one man in fifty, who in degree if not in kind do exceed their -fellows in scope and awareness and vitality. I am that one man in -fifty, and knowing people is my specialty."</p> - -<p>"Could a man who specialized still more—and to the exclusion of other -things—know a hundred thousand men well."</p> - -<p>"It is possible. Dimly."</p> - -<p>"A quarter of a million?"</p> - -<p>"I think not. He might learn that many faces and names, but he would -not know the men."</p> - -<p>Anthony went next to the philosopher, Gabriel Mindel.</p> - -<p>"Mr. Mindel, how many people do you know?"</p> - -<p>"How know? <i>Per se?</i> <i>A se?</i> Or <i>In Se</i>? <i>Per suam essentiam</i>, perhaps? -Or do you mean <i>Ab alio</i>? Or to know as <i>Hoc aliquid</i>? There is a -fine difference there. Or do you possibly mean to know in <i>Substantia -prima</i>, or in the sense of comprehensive <i>noumena</i>?"</p> - -<p>"Somewhere between the latter two. How many persons do you know by -name, face, and with a degree of intimacy?"</p> - -<p>"I have learned over the years the names of some of my colleagues, -possibly a dozen of them. I am now sound on my wife's name, and -I seldom stumble over the names of my offspring—never more than -momentarily. But you may have come to the wrong man for—whatever you -have come for. I am notoriously poor at names, faces, and persons. I -have even been described (<i>vox faucibus haesit</i>) as absent-minded."</p> - -<p>"Yes, you do have the reputation. But perhaps I have not come to the -wrong man in seeking the theory of the thing. What is it that limits -the comprehensive capacity of the mind of man? What will it hold? What -restricts?"</p> - -<p>"The body."</p> - -<p>"How is that?"</p> - -<p>"The brain, I should say, the material tie. The mind is limited by the -brain. It is skull-bound. It can accumulate no more than its cranial -capacity, though not one tenth of that is ordinarily used. An unbodied -mind would (in esoteric theory) be unlimited."</p> - -<p>"And how in practical theory?"</p> - -<p>"If it is practical, a <i>pragma</i>, it is a thing and not a theory."</p> - -<p>"Then we can have no experience with the unbodied mind, or the -possibility of it?"</p> - -<p>"We have not discovered any area of contact, but we may entertain -the possibility of it. There is no paradox there. One may rationally -consider the irrational."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Anthony went next to see the priest.</p> - -<p>"How many people do you know?"</p> - -<p>"I know all of them."</p> - -<p>"That has to be doubted," said Anthony after a moment.</p> - -<p>"I've had twenty different stations. And when you hear five thousand -confessions a year for forty years, you by no means know all about -people, but you do know all people."</p> - -<p>"I do not mean types. I mean persons."</p> - -<p>"Oh, I know a dozen or so well, a few thousands somewhat less."</p> - -<p>"Would it be possible to know a hundred thousand people, a half -million?"</p> - -<p>"A mentalist might know that many to recognize; I don't know the limit. -But darkened man has a limit set on everything."</p> - -<p>"Could a somehow emancipated man know more?"</p> - -<p>"The only emancipated man is the corporally dead man. And the dead man, -if he attains the beatific vision, knows all other persons who have -ever been since time began."</p> - -<p>"All the billions?"</p> - -<p>"All."</p> - -<p>"With the same brain?"</p> - -<p>"No. But with the same mind."</p> - -<p>"Then wouldn't even a believer have to admit that the mind which we -have now is only a token mind? Would not any connection it would have -with a completely comprehensive mind be very tenuous? Would we really -be the same person if so changed? It is like saying a bucket would hold -the ocean if it were fulfilled, which only means filled full. How could -it be the same mind?"</p> - -<p>"I don't know."</p> - -<p>Anthony went to see a psychologist.</p> - -<p>"How many people do you know, Dr. Shirm?"</p> - -<p>"I could be crabby and say that I know as many as I want to; but -it wouldn't be the truth. I rather like people, which is odd in my -profession. What is it that you really want to know?"</p> - -<p>"How many people can one man know?"</p> - -<p>"It doesn't matter very much. People mostly overestimate the number of -their acquaintances. What is it that you are trying to ask me?"</p> - -<p>"Could one man know everyone?"</p> - -<p>"Naturally not. But unnaturally he might seem to. There is a delusion -to this effect accompanied by an euphoria, and it is called—"</p> - -<p>"I don't want to know what it is called. Why do specialists use Latin -and Greek?"</p> - -<p>"One part hokum, and two parts need; there simply not being enough -letters in the alphabet of exposition without them. It is as difficult -to name concepts as children, and we search our brains as a new mother -does. It will not do to call two children or two concepts by one name."</p> - -<p>"Thank you. I doubt that this is delusion, and it is not accompanied by -euphoria."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Anthony had a reason for questioning the four men since (as a new thing -that had come to him) he knew everybody. He knew everyone in Salt Lake -City, where he had never been. He knew everybody in Jebel Shah where -the town is a little amphitheater around the harbor, and in Batangas -and Weihai. He knew the loungers around the end of the Galata bridge in -Istambul, and the porters in Kuala Lumpur. He knew the tobacco traders -in Plovdiv, and the cork-cutters of Portugal. He knew the dock workers -in Djibouti, and the glove-makers in Prague. He knew the vegetable -farmers around El Centro, and the muskrat trappers of Barrataria Bay. -He knew the three billion people of the world by name and face, and -with a fair degree of intimacy.</p> - -<p>"Yet I'm not a very intelligent man. I've been called a bungler. And -they've had to reassign me three different times at the filter center. -I've seen only a few thousands of these billions of people, and it -seems unusual that I should know them all. It may be a delusion as -Dr. Shirm says, but it is a heavily detailed delusion, and it is not -accompanied by euphoria. I feel like green hell just thinking of it."</p> - -<p>He knew the cattle traders in Letterkenny Donegal; he knew the cane -cutters of Oriente, and the tree climbers of Milne Bay. He knew the -people who died every minute, and those who were born.</p> - -<p>"There is no way out of it. I know everybody in the world. It is -impossible, but it is so. And to what purpose? There aren't a handful -of them I could borrow a dollar from, and I haven't a real friend in -the lot. I don't know whether it came to me suddenly, but I realized it -suddenly. My father was a junk dealer in Wichita, and my education is -spotty. I am maladjusted, introverted, incompetent and unhappy, and I -also have weak kidneys. Why would a power like this come to a man like -me?"</p> - -<p>The children in the streets hooted at him. Anthony had always had -a healthy hatred for children and dogs, those twin harassers of the -unfortunate and the maladjusted. Both run in packs, and both are -cowardly attackers. And if either of them spots a weakness he will -never let it go. That his father had been a junk dealer was not reason -to hoot at him. But how did the children even know about that? Did they -possess some fraction of the power that had come to him lately?</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>But he had strolled about the town for too long. He should have been at -work at the filter center. Often they were impatient with him when he -wandered off from his work, and Colonel Peter Cooper was waiting for -him when he came in now.</p> - -<p>"Where have you been, Anthony?"</p> - -<p>"Walking. I talked to four men. I mentioned no subject in the province -of the filter center."</p> - -<p>"Every subject is in the province of the filter center. And you know -that our work here is confidential."</p> - -<p>"Yes, sir, but I do not understand the import of my work here. I would -not be able to give out information that I do not have."</p> - -<p>"A popular misconception. There are others who might understand the -import of it, and be able to reconstruct it from what you tell them. -How do you feel?"</p> - -<p>"Nervous, unwell, my tongue is furred, my kidneys—"</p> - -<p>"Ah yes, there will be someone here this afternoon to fix your kidneys. -I had not forgotten. Is there anything that you want to tell me?"</p> - -<p>"No, sir."</p> - -<p>Colonel Cooper had the habit of asking that of his workers in the -manner of a mother asking a child if he wants to go to the bathroom. -There was something embarrassing in his intonation.</p> - -<p>Well, he did want to tell him something, but he didn't know how to -phrase it. He wanted to tell the colonel that he had newly acquired -the power of knowing everyone in the world, that he was worried how -he could hold so much in his head that was not noteworthy for its -capacity. But he feared ridicule more than he feared anything else and -he was a tangle of fears.</p> - -<p>But he thought he would try it a little bit on his co-workers.</p> - -<p>"I know a man named Walter Walloroy in Galveston," he said to Adrian. -"He drinks beer at the Gizmo bar, and is retired."</p> - -<p>"What is the superlative of <i>so what</i>?"</p> - -<p>"But I have never been there," said Anthony.</p> - -<p>"And I have never been in Kalamazoo."</p> - -<p>"I know a girl in Kalamazoo. Her name is Greta Harandash. She is home -today with a cold. She is prone to colds."</p> - -<p>But Adrian was a creature both uninterested and uninteresting. It is -very hard to confide in one who is uninterested.</p> - -<p>"Well, I will live with it a little while," said Anthony. "Or I may -have to go to a doctor and see if he can give me something to make all -these people go away. But if he thinks my story is a queer one, he may -report me back to the center, and I might be reclassified again. It -makes me nervous to be reclassified."</p> - -<p>So he lived with it a while, the rest of the day and the night. He -should have felt better. A man had come that afternoon and fixed his -kidneys; but there was nobody to fix his nervousness and apprehensions. -And his skittishness was increased when the children hooted at him as -he walked in the morning. That hated epithet! But how could they know -that his father had been a dealer in used metals in a town far away?</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>He had to confide in someone.</p> - -<p>He spoke to Wellington who also worked in his room. "I know a girl in -Beirut who is just going to bed. It is evening there now, you know."</p> - -<p>"That so? Why don't they get their time straightened out? I met a girl -last night that's cute as a correlator key, and kind of shaped like -one. She doesn't know yet that I work in the center and am a restricted -person. I'm not going to tell her. Let her find out for herself."</p> - -<p>It was no good trying to tell things to Wellington. Wellington never -listened. And then Anthony got a summons to Colonel Peter Cooper, which -always increased his apprehension.</p> - -<p>"Anthony," said the colonel, "I want you to tell me if you discern -anything unusual. That is really your job, to report anything unusual. -The other, the paper shuffling, is just something to keep your idle -hands busy. Now tell me clearly if anything unusual has come to your -notice."</p> - -<p>"Sir, it has." And then he blurted it all out. "I know everybody! I -know everybody in the world. I know them all in their billions, every -person. It has me worried sick."</p> - -<p>"Yes, yes, Anthony. But tell me, have you noticed anything <i>odd</i>? It is -your duty to tell me if you have."</p> - -<p>"But I have just told you! In some manner I know every person in -the world. I know the people in Transvaal, I know the people in -Guatemala. I know <i>everybody</i>."</p> - -<p>"Yes, Anthony, we realize that. And it may take a little getting used -to. But that isn't what I mean. Have you (besides that thing that seems -out of the way to you) noticed anything unusual, anything that seems -out of place, a little bit wrong?"</p> - -<p>"Ah—besides that and your reaction to it, no, sir. Nothing else odd. -I might ask, though, how odd can a thing get? But other than that—no, -sir."</p> - -<p>"Good, Anthony. Now remember, if you sense anything odd about anything -at all, come and tell me. No matter how trivial it is, if you feel that -something is just a little bit out of place, then report it at once. Do -you understand that?"</p> - -<p>"Yes, sir."</p> - -<p>But he couldn't help wondering what it might be that the colonel would -consider a little bit odd.</p> - -<p>Anthony left the center and walked. He shouldn't have. He knew that -they became impatient with him when he wandered off from his work.</p> - -<p>"But I have to think. I have all the people in the world in my brain, -and still I am not able to think. This power should have come to -someone able to take advantage of it."</p> - -<p>He went into the Plugged Nickel Bar, but the man on duty knew him for -a restricted person from the filter center, and would not serve him.</p> - -<p>He wandered disconsolately about the city. "I know the people in Omaha -and those in Omsk. What queer names have the towns of the earth! I know -everyone in the world, and when anyone is born or dies. And Colonel -Cooper did not find it unusual. Yet I am to be on the lookout for -things unusual. The question rises, would I know an odd thing if I met -it?"</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>And then it was that something just a little bit unusual did happen, -something not quite right. A small thing. But the colonel had told him -to report anything about anything, no matter how insignificant, that -struck him as a little queer.</p> - -<p>It was just that with all the people in his head, and the arrivals and -departures, there was a small group that was not of the pattern.</p> - -<p>Every minute hundreds left by death and arrived by birth. And now there -was a small group, seven persons; they arrived into the world, but they -were not born into the world.</p> - -<p>So Anthony went to tell Colonel Cooper that something had occurred to -his mind that was a little bit odd.</p> - -<p>But damn-the-dander-headed-two-and-four-legged-devils, there were the -kids and the dogs in the street again, yipping and hooting and chanting:</p> - -<p>"Tony the tin man. Tony the tin man."</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus.jpg" width="327" height="500" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>He longed for the day when he would see them fall like leaves out of -his mind, and death take them.</p> - -<p>"Tony the tin man. Tony the tin man."</p> - -<p>How had they known that his father was a used metal dealer?</p> - -<p>Colonel Peter Cooper was waiting for him.</p> - -<p>"You surely took your time, Anthony. The reaction was registered, but -it would take us hours to pin-point its source without your help. Now -then, explain as calmly as you can what you have felt or experienced. -Or, more to the point, where are they?"</p> - -<p>"No. You will have to answer me certain questions first."</p> - -<p>"I haven't the time to waste, Anthony. Tell me at once what it is and -where."</p> - -<p>"No. There is no other way. You have to bargain with me."</p> - -<p>"One does not bargain with restricted persons."</p> - -<p>"Well, I will bargain till I find out just what it means that I am a -restricted person."</p> - -<p>"You really don't know? Well, we haven't time to fix that stubborn -streak in you. Quickly, just what is it that you have to know?"</p> - -<p>"I have to know what a restricted person is. I have to know why the -children hoot 'Tony the tin man' at me. How can they know that my -father was a junk dealer?"</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>"You had no father. We give to each of you a sufficient store of -memories and a background of a distant town. That happened to be yours, -but there is no connection here. The children call you Tony the Tin Man -because (like all really cruel creatures) they have an instinct for the -truth that can hurt; and they will never forget it."</p> - -<p>"Then I am a tin man?"</p> - -<p>"Well, no. Actually only seventeen percent metal. And less than a -third of one percent tin. You are compounded of animal, vegetable, and -mineral fiber, and there was much effort given to your manufacture and -programming. Yet the taunt of the children is essentially true."</p> - -<p>"Then, if I am only Tony the Tin Man, how can I know all the people in -the world in my mind?"</p> - -<p>"You have no mind."</p> - -<p>"In my brain then. How can all that be in one small brain?"</p> - -<p>"Because your brain is not in your head, and it is not small. Come, I -may as well show it to you; I've told you enough that it won't matter -if you know a little more. There are few who are taken on personally -conducted sight-seeing tours of their own brains. You should be -grateful.</p> - -<p>"Gratitude seems a little tardy."</p> - -<p>They went into the barred area, down into the bowels of the main -building of the center. And they looked at the brain of Anthony Trotz, -a restricted person in its special meaning.</p> - -<p>"It is the largest in the world," said Colonel Cooper.</p> - -<p>"How large?"</p> - -<p>"A little over twelve hundred cubic meters."</p> - -<p>"What a brain! And it is mine?"</p> - -<p>"You are an adjunct to it, a runner for it, an appendage, inasmuch as -you are anything at all."</p> - -<p>"Colonel Cooper, how long have I been alive?"</p> - -<p>"You are not."</p> - -<p>"How long have I been as I am now?"</p> - -<p>"It is three days since you were last reassigned, since you were -assigned to this. At that time your nervousness and apprehensions -were introduced. An apprehensive unit will be more inclined to notice -details just a little out of the ordinary."</p> - -<p>"And what is my purpose?"</p> - -<p>They were walking now back to the office work area, and Anthony had a -sad feeling at leaving his brain behind him.</p> - -<p>"This is a filter center, and your purpose is to serve as a filter, -of a sort. Every person has a slight aura around him. It is a -characteristic of his, and is part of his personality and purpose. -And it can be detected, electrically, magnetically, even visually -under special conditions. The accumulator at which we were looking -(your brain) is designed to maintain contact with all the auras in the -world, and to keep a running and complete data on them all. It contains -a multiplicity of circuits for each of its three billion and some -subjects. However, as aid to its operation, it was necessary to assign -several artificial consciousnesses to it. You are one of these."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>The dogs and the children had found a new victim in the streets below. -Anthony's heart went out to him.</p> - -<p>"The purpose," continued Colonel Cooper, "was to notice anything just -a little bit peculiar in the auras and the persons they represent, -anything at all odd in their comings and goings. Anything like what you -have come here to report to me."</p> - -<p>"Like the seven persons who recently arrived in the world, and not by -way of birth?"</p> - -<p>"Yes. We have been expecting the first of the aliens for months. We -must know their area, and at once. Now tell me."</p> - -<p>"What if they are not aliens at all. What if they are restricted -persons like myself?"</p> - -<p>"Restricted persons have no aura, are not persons, are not alive. And -you would not receive knowledge of them."</p> - -<p>"Then how do I know the other restricted persons here, Adrian and -Wellington, and such?"</p> - -<p>"You know them at first hand. You do not know them through the machine. -Now tell me the area quickly. The center may be a primary target. It -will take the machine hours to ravel it out. Your only purpose is to -serve as an intuitive short-cut."</p> - -<p>But Tin Man Tony did not speak. He only thought in his mind—more -accurately, in his brain, a hundred yards away. He thought in his -fabricated consciousness:</p> - -<p>"The area is quite near. If the colonel were not burdened with a mind, -he would be able to think more clearly. He would know that cruel -children and dogs love to worry what is not human, and that all of the -restricted persons are accounted for in this area. He would know that -they are worrying one of the aliens in the street below, and that is -the area that is right in my consciousness.</p> - -<p>"I wonder if they will be better masters? He is an imposing figure, -and he would be able to pass for a man. And the colonel is right: The -Center is a primary target.</p> - -<p>"Why! I never knew you could kill a child just by pointing a finger at -him like that! What opportunities I have missed! Enemy of my enemy, you -are my friend."</p> - -<p>And aloud he said to the colonel:</p> - -<p>"I will not tell you."</p> - -<p>"Then we'll have you apart and get it out of you mighty quick."</p> - -<p>"How quick?"</p> - -<p>"Ten minutes."</p> - -<p>"Time enough," said Tony, for he knew them now, coming in like snow. -They were arriving in the world by the hundreds, and not arriving by -birth.</p> - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of All The People, by R.A. 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Lafferty - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with -almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org/license - - -Title: All The People - -Author: R.A. Lafferty - -Release Date: March 30, 2016 [EBook #51603] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ALL THE PEOPLE *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - - - - - ALL THE PEOPLE - - By R. A. LAFFERTY - - Illustrated by GAUGHAN - - [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from - Galaxy Magazine April 1961. - Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that - the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - - Tin Tony Trotz had only one job--to - watch out for something a little - odd--in a universe that was insane! - - -Anthony Trotz went first to the politician, Mike Delado. "How many -people do you know, Mr. Delado?" - -"Why the question?" - -"I am wondering just what amount of detail the mind can hold." - -"To a degree I know many. Ten thousand well, thirty thousand by name, -probably a hundred thousand by face and to shake hands with." - -"And what is the limit?" Anthony inquired. - -"Possibly I am the limit." The politician smiled frostily. "The only -limit is time, speed of cognizance and retention. I am told that the -latter lessens with age. I am seventy, and it has not done so with me. -Whom I have known I do not forget." - -"And with special training could one go beyond you?" - -"I doubt if one could--much. For my own training has been quite -special. Nobody has been so entirely with the people as I have. I've -taken five memory courses in my time, but the tricks of all of them I -had already come to on my own. I am a great believer in the commonality -of mankind and of near equal inherent ability. Yet there are some, say -the one man in fifty, who in degree if not in kind do exceed their -fellows in scope and awareness and vitality. I am that one man in -fifty, and knowing people is my specialty." - -"Could a man who specialized still more--and to the exclusion of other -things--know a hundred thousand men well." - -"It is possible. Dimly." - -"A quarter of a million?" - -"I think not. He might learn that many faces and names, but he would -not know the men." - -Anthony went next to the philosopher, Gabriel Mindel. - -"Mr. Mindel, how many people do you know?" - -"How know? _Per se?_ _A se?_ Or _In Se_? _Per suam essentiam_, perhaps? -Or do you mean _Ab alio_? Or to know as _Hoc aliquid_? There is a -fine difference there. Or do you possibly mean to know in _Substantia -prima_, or in the sense of comprehensive _noumena_?" - -"Somewhere between the latter two. How many persons do you know by -name, face, and with a degree of intimacy?" - -"I have learned over the years the names of some of my colleagues, -possibly a dozen of them. I am now sound on my wife's name, and -I seldom stumble over the names of my offspring--never more than -momentarily. But you may have come to the wrong man for--whatever you -have come for. I am notoriously poor at names, faces, and persons. I -have even been described (_vox faucibus haesit_) as absent-minded." - -"Yes, you do have the reputation. But perhaps I have not come to the -wrong man in seeking the theory of the thing. What is it that limits -the comprehensive capacity of the mind of man? What will it hold? What -restricts?" - -"The body." - -"How is that?" - -"The brain, I should say, the material tie. The mind is limited by the -brain. It is skull-bound. It can accumulate no more than its cranial -capacity, though not one tenth of that is ordinarily used. An unbodied -mind would (in esoteric theory) be unlimited." - -"And how in practical theory?" - -"If it is practical, a _pragma_, it is a thing and not a theory." - -"Then we can have no experience with the unbodied mind, or the -possibility of it?" - -"We have not discovered any area of contact, but we may entertain -the possibility of it. There is no paradox there. One may rationally -consider the irrational." - - * * * * * - -Anthony went next to see the priest. - -"How many people do you know?" - -"I know all of them." - -"That has to be doubted," said Anthony after a moment. - -"I've had twenty different stations. And when you hear five thousand -confessions a year for forty years, you by no means know all about -people, but you do know all people." - -"I do not mean types. I mean persons." - -"Oh, I know a dozen or so well, a few thousands somewhat less." - -"Would it be possible to know a hundred thousand people, a half -million?" - -"A mentalist might know that many to recognize; I don't know the limit. -But darkened man has a limit set on everything." - -"Could a somehow emancipated man know more?" - -"The only emancipated man is the corporally dead man. And the dead man, -if he attains the beatific vision, knows all other persons who have -ever been since time began." - -"All the billions?" - -"All." - -"With the same brain?" - -"No. But with the same mind." - -"Then wouldn't even a believer have to admit that the mind which we -have now is only a token mind? Would not any connection it would have -with a completely comprehensive mind be very tenuous? Would we really -be the same person if so changed? It is like saying a bucket would hold -the ocean if it were fulfilled, which only means filled full. How could -it be the same mind?" - -"I don't know." - -Anthony went to see a psychologist. - -"How many people do you know, Dr. Shirm?" - -"I could be crabby and say that I know as many as I want to; but -it wouldn't be the truth. I rather like people, which is odd in my -profession. What is it that you really want to know?" - -"How many people can one man know?" - -"It doesn't matter very much. People mostly overestimate the number of -their acquaintances. What is it that you are trying to ask me?" - -"Could one man know everyone?" - -"Naturally not. But unnaturally he might seem to. There is a delusion -to this effect accompanied by an euphoria, and it is called--" - -"I don't want to know what it is called. Why do specialists use Latin -and Greek?" - -"One part hokum, and two parts need; there simply not being enough -letters in the alphabet of exposition without them. It is as difficult -to name concepts as children, and we search our brains as a new mother -does. It will not do to call two children or two concepts by one name." - -"Thank you. I doubt that this is delusion, and it is not accompanied by -euphoria." - - * * * * * - -Anthony had a reason for questioning the four men since (as a new thing -that had come to him) he knew everybody. He knew everyone in Salt Lake -City, where he had never been. He knew everybody in Jebel Shah where -the town is a little amphitheater around the harbor, and in Batangas -and Weihai. He knew the loungers around the end of the Galata bridge in -Istambul, and the porters in Kuala Lumpur. He knew the tobacco traders -in Plovdiv, and the cork-cutters of Portugal. He knew the dock workers -in Djibouti, and the glove-makers in Prague. He knew the vegetable -farmers around El Centro, and the muskrat trappers of Barrataria Bay. -He knew the three billion people of the world by name and face, and -with a fair degree of intimacy. - -"Yet I'm not a very intelligent man. I've been called a bungler. And -they've had to reassign me three different times at the filter center. -I've seen only a few thousands of these billions of people, and it -seems unusual that I should know them all. It may be a delusion as -Dr. Shirm says, but it is a heavily detailed delusion, and it is not -accompanied by euphoria. I feel like green hell just thinking of it." - -He knew the cattle traders in Letterkenny Donegal; he knew the cane -cutters of Oriente, and the tree climbers of Milne Bay. He knew the -people who died every minute, and those who were born. - -"There is no way out of it. I know everybody in the world. It is -impossible, but it is so. And to what purpose? There aren't a handful -of them I could borrow a dollar from, and I haven't a real friend in -the lot. I don't know whether it came to me suddenly, but I realized it -suddenly. My father was a junk dealer in Wichita, and my education is -spotty. I am maladjusted, introverted, incompetent and unhappy, and I -also have weak kidneys. Why would a power like this come to a man like -me?" - -The children in the streets hooted at him. Anthony had always had -a healthy hatred for children and dogs, those twin harassers of the -unfortunate and the maladjusted. Both run in packs, and both are -cowardly attackers. And if either of them spots a weakness he will -never let it go. That his father had been a junk dealer was not reason -to hoot at him. But how did the children even know about that? Did they -possess some fraction of the power that had come to him lately? - - * * * * * - -But he had strolled about the town for too long. He should have been at -work at the filter center. Often they were impatient with him when he -wandered off from his work, and Colonel Peter Cooper was waiting for -him when he came in now. - -"Where have you been, Anthony?" - -"Walking. I talked to four men. I mentioned no subject in the province -of the filter center." - -"Every subject is in the province of the filter center. And you know -that our work here is confidential." - -"Yes, sir, but I do not understand the import of my work here. I would -not be able to give out information that I do not have." - -"A popular misconception. There are others who might understand the -import of it, and be able to reconstruct it from what you tell them. -How do you feel?" - -"Nervous, unwell, my tongue is furred, my kidneys--" - -"Ah yes, there will be someone here this afternoon to fix your kidneys. -I had not forgotten. Is there anything that you want to tell me?" - -"No, sir." - -Colonel Cooper had the habit of asking that of his workers in the -manner of a mother asking a child if he wants to go to the bathroom. -There was something embarrassing in his intonation. - -Well, he did want to tell him something, but he didn't know how to -phrase it. He wanted to tell the colonel that he had newly acquired -the power of knowing everyone in the world, that he was worried how -he could hold so much in his head that was not noteworthy for its -capacity. But he feared ridicule more than he feared anything else and -he was a tangle of fears. - -But he thought he would try it a little bit on his co-workers. - -"I know a man named Walter Walloroy in Galveston," he said to Adrian. -"He drinks beer at the Gizmo bar, and is retired." - -"What is the superlative of _so what_?" - -"But I have never been there," said Anthony. - -"And I have never been in Kalamazoo." - -"I know a girl in Kalamazoo. Her name is Greta Harandash. She is home -today with a cold. She is prone to colds." - -But Adrian was a creature both uninterested and uninteresting. It is -very hard to confide in one who is uninterested. - -"Well, I will live with it a little while," said Anthony. "Or I may -have to go to a doctor and see if he can give me something to make all -these people go away. But if he thinks my story is a queer one, he may -report me back to the center, and I might be reclassified again. It -makes me nervous to be reclassified." - -So he lived with it a while, the rest of the day and the night. He -should have felt better. A man had come that afternoon and fixed his -kidneys; but there was nobody to fix his nervousness and apprehensions. -And his skittishness was increased when the children hooted at him as -he walked in the morning. That hated epithet! But how could they know -that his father had been a dealer in used metals in a town far away? - - * * * * * - -He had to confide in someone. - -He spoke to Wellington who also worked in his room. "I know a girl in -Beirut who is just going to bed. It is evening there now, you know." - -"That so? Why don't they get their time straightened out? I met a girl -last night that's cute as a correlator key, and kind of shaped like -one. She doesn't know yet that I work in the center and am a restricted -person. I'm not going to tell her. Let her find out for herself." - -It was no good trying to tell things to Wellington. Wellington never -listened. And then Anthony got a summons to Colonel Peter Cooper, which -always increased his apprehension. - -"Anthony," said the colonel, "I want you to tell me if you discern -anything unusual. That is really your job, to report anything unusual. -The other, the paper shuffling, is just something to keep your idle -hands busy. Now tell me clearly if anything unusual has come to your -notice." - -"Sir, it has." And then he blurted it all out. "I know everybody! I -know everybody in the world. I know them all in their billions, every -person. It has me worried sick." - -"Yes, yes, Anthony. But tell me, have you noticed anything _odd_? It is -your duty to tell me if you have." - -"But I have just told you! In some manner I know every person in -the world. I know the people in Transvaal, I know the people in -Guatemala. I know _everybody_." - -"Yes, Anthony, we realize that. And it may take a little getting used -to. But that isn't what I mean. Have you (besides that thing that seems -out of the way to you) noticed anything unusual, anything that seems -out of place, a little bit wrong?" - -"Ah--besides that and your reaction to it, no, sir. Nothing else odd. -I might ask, though, how odd can a thing get? But other than that--no, -sir." - -"Good, Anthony. Now remember, if you sense anything odd about anything -at all, come and tell me. No matter how trivial it is, if you feel that -something is just a little bit out of place, then report it at once. Do -you understand that?" - -"Yes, sir." - -But he couldn't help wondering what it might be that the colonel would -consider a little bit odd. - -Anthony left the center and walked. He shouldn't have. He knew that -they became impatient with him when he wandered off from his work. - -"But I have to think. I have all the people in the world in my brain, -and still I am not able to think. This power should have come to -someone able to take advantage of it." - -He went into the Plugged Nickel Bar, but the man on duty knew him for -a restricted person from the filter center, and would not serve him. - -He wandered disconsolately about the city. "I know the people in Omaha -and those in Omsk. What queer names have the towns of the earth! I know -everyone in the world, and when anyone is born or dies. And Colonel -Cooper did not find it unusual. Yet I am to be on the lookout for -things unusual. The question rises, would I know an odd thing if I met -it?" - - * * * * * - -And then it was that something just a little bit unusual did happen, -something not quite right. A small thing. But the colonel had told him -to report anything about anything, no matter how insignificant, that -struck him as a little queer. - -It was just that with all the people in his head, and the arrivals and -departures, there was a small group that was not of the pattern. - -Every minute hundreds left by death and arrived by birth. And now there -was a small group, seven persons; they arrived into the world, but they -were not born into the world. - -So Anthony went to tell Colonel Cooper that something had occurred to -his mind that was a little bit odd. - -But damn-the-dander-headed-two-and-four-legged-devils, there were the -kids and the dogs in the street again, yipping and hooting and chanting: - -"Tony the tin man. Tony the tin man." - -He longed for the day when he would see them fall like leaves out of -his mind, and death take them. - -"Tony the tin man. Tony the tin man." - -How had they known that his father was a used metal dealer? - -Colonel Peter Cooper was waiting for him. - -"You surely took your time, Anthony. The reaction was registered, but -it would take us hours to pin-point its source without your help. Now -then, explain as calmly as you can what you have felt or experienced. -Or, more to the point, where are they?" - -"No. You will have to answer me certain questions first." - -"I haven't the time to waste, Anthony. Tell me at once what it is and -where." - -"No. There is no other way. You have to bargain with me." - -"One does not bargain with restricted persons." - -"Well, I will bargain till I find out just what it means that I am a -restricted person." - -"You really don't know? Well, we haven't time to fix that stubborn -streak in you. Quickly, just what is it that you have to know?" - -"I have to know what a restricted person is. I have to know why the -children hoot 'Tony the tin man' at me. How can they know that my -father was a junk dealer?" - - * * * * * - -"You had no father. We give to each of you a sufficient store of -memories and a background of a distant town. That happened to be yours, -but there is no connection here. The children call you Tony the Tin Man -because (like all really cruel creatures) they have an instinct for the -truth that can hurt; and they will never forget it." - -"Then I am a tin man?" - -"Well, no. Actually only seventeen percent metal. And less than a -third of one percent tin. You are compounded of animal, vegetable, and -mineral fiber, and there was much effort given to your manufacture and -programming. Yet the taunt of the children is essentially true." - -"Then, if I am only Tony the Tin Man, how can I know all the people in -the world in my mind?" - -"You have no mind." - -"In my brain then. How can all that be in one small brain?" - -"Because your brain is not in your head, and it is not small. Come, I -may as well show it to you; I've told you enough that it won't matter -if you know a little more. There are few who are taken on personally -conducted sight-seeing tours of their own brains. You should be -grateful. - -"Gratitude seems a little tardy." - -They went into the barred area, down into the bowels of the main -building of the center. And they looked at the brain of Anthony Trotz, -a restricted person in its special meaning. - -"It is the largest in the world," said Colonel Cooper. - -"How large?" - -"A little over twelve hundred cubic meters." - -"What a brain! And it is mine?" - -"You are an adjunct to it, a runner for it, an appendage, inasmuch as -you are anything at all." - -"Colonel Cooper, how long have I been alive?" - -"You are not." - -"How long have I been as I am now?" - -"It is three days since you were last reassigned, since you were -assigned to this. At that time your nervousness and apprehensions -were introduced. An apprehensive unit will be more inclined to notice -details just a little out of the ordinary." - -"And what is my purpose?" - -They were walking now back to the office work area, and Anthony had a -sad feeling at leaving his brain behind him. - -"This is a filter center, and your purpose is to serve as a filter, -of a sort. Every person has a slight aura around him. It is a -characteristic of his, and is part of his personality and purpose. -And it can be detected, electrically, magnetically, even visually -under special conditions. The accumulator at which we were looking -(your brain) is designed to maintain contact with all the auras in the -world, and to keep a running and complete data on them all. It contains -a multiplicity of circuits for each of its three billion and some -subjects. However, as aid to its operation, it was necessary to assign -several artificial consciousnesses to it. You are one of these." - - * * * * * - -The dogs and the children had found a new victim in the streets below. -Anthony's heart went out to him. - -"The purpose," continued Colonel Cooper, "was to notice anything just -a little bit peculiar in the auras and the persons they represent, -anything at all odd in their comings and goings. Anything like what you -have come here to report to me." - -"Like the seven persons who recently arrived in the world, and not by -way of birth?" - -"Yes. We have been expecting the first of the aliens for months. We -must know their area, and at once. Now tell me." - -"What if they are not aliens at all. What if they are restricted -persons like myself?" - -"Restricted persons have no aura, are not persons, are not alive. And -you would not receive knowledge of them." - -"Then how do I know the other restricted persons here, Adrian and -Wellington, and such?" - -"You know them at first hand. You do not know them through the machine. -Now tell me the area quickly. The center may be a primary target. It -will take the machine hours to ravel it out. Your only purpose is to -serve as an intuitive short-cut." - -But Tin Man Tony did not speak. He only thought in his mind--more -accurately, in his brain, a hundred yards away. He thought in his -fabricated consciousness: - -"The area is quite near. If the colonel were not burdened with a mind, -he would be able to think more clearly. He would know that cruel -children and dogs love to worry what is not human, and that all of the -restricted persons are accounted for in this area. He would know that -they are worrying one of the aliens in the street below, and that is -the area that is right in my consciousness. - -"I wonder if they will be better masters? He is an imposing figure, -and he would be able to pass for a man. And the colonel is right: The -Center is a primary target. - -"Why! I never knew you could kill a child just by pointing a finger at -him like that! What opportunities I have missed! Enemy of my enemy, you -are my friend." - -And aloud he said to the colonel: - -"I will not tell you." - -"Then we'll have you apart and get it out of you mighty quick." - -"How quick?" - -"Ten minutes." - -"Time enough," said Tony, for he knew them now, coming in like snow. -They were arriving in the world by the hundreds, and not arriving by -birth. - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of All The People, by R.A. 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